Stralsund: The attack

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Episode in the Stralsund series
Original title The attack
Stralsund (TV series) .jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 8
First broadcast December 28, 2015 on ZDF
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Director Lars-Gunnar Lotz
script Martin Eigler ,
Sven S. Poser
production Wolfgang Cimera
music Oliver Kranz
camera Philipp Kirsamer
cut Darius Simaifar
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The attack is a German television film by Lars-Gunnar Lotz from 2015. It is the eighth film in the ZDF crime film series Stralsund . Katharina Wackernagel , Wanja Mues , Alexander Held and Michael Rotschopf play the main roles of the investigators . The main guest roles are occupied by Peter Lohmeyer , Andreas Leupold , David Korbmann , Markus Tomczyk , Nadja Bobyleva , Golo Euler and Maike Bollow .

action

Detective Inspector Nina Petersen continues to suffer from the events of the past: the death of her superior Susanne Winkler, the loss of her friend and colleague Benjamin Lietz and their unborn child, who could not be saved after a gunshot wound in the stomach. She is haunted by nightmares and panic attacks and is hit by several bullets in one of her dreams after a wild chase that ends at a closed gate. Her colleague Kriminalhauptkommissar Karl Hidde, who lost his right lower leg during an operation, is not doing well either. Since the amputation he has suffered from phantom pain and his prosthesis has repeatedly caused him problems.

When blogger Ludger Simon is found murdered in the back room of the Stralsund “Vineta Bar”, Petersen, Hidde, their colleague Max Morolf and Gregor Meyer, the boss of the three, investigate the murder case. The “Vineta Bar” served as a meeting place for a politically radical group of opponents of globalization. The murdered man was no stranger to the hooligan and violent crime scene . The head of the group is Peter Marohn, the owner of the Vineta Bar. When asked, Marohn can provide evidence of an alibi for the time of the murder, but still plans to be admitted to psychiatry so that he can be questioned by the police to be able to withdraw.

Documents about his research have now been secured from Ludger Simon. Then the report comes in that a truck with an enormous amount of ammonium nitrate , which is also used to manufacture explosives , has come into the possession of the right-wing radicals. Simon's documents show that Marohn's group is planning an attack with devastating effects in Stralsund and the surrounding area this month. Where and when the action should be carried out, however, is still in the dark. Hidde explains that Marohn is probably the head of a conspiratorial group whose people would all believe in the same nonsense: Islamists want to subjugate us, every foreigner is a potential terrorist, politics is watching, the lying press helps. Another name appears, that of Lothar von Stendhal, nicknamed "The Baron", grandfather in the NSDAP , father neo-Nazi , he himself is active in various right-wing factions and probably Marohn's adjutant . The group is responsible for terrible acts of violence, the fact is that someone wants to spread fear and terror.

Nina Petersen's suggestion to be admitted to psychiatry in order to establish contact with Marohn and possibly to get information, Meyer agrees with a queasy feeling. Nina thinks she just has to play a lost soul looking for something to hold on to, she can do that. Only clinic director Dr. Steiger is informed about the plan. Nina tells Dr. Increase from the problems she actually has and from moments when she feels close to the abyss. Shortly afterwards she starts talking to Marohn. Late in the evening Petersen observed a strange encounter between Marohn and Steiger, whereupon she called Morolf to ask Steiger to be checked more closely.

Flashbacks at Nina Petersen mean that she repeatedly meets her dead boss Susanne Winkler, which affects her psyche even more. Meyer asks Nina during a visit to stay away from Steiger because there had been a complaint against him for sexual harassment in the year when Juliane Seibt, who belongs to the right-wing scene, was a patient there. At a meeting between Hidde, Morolf and him, Meyer throws into the room why a victim was making common cause with his rapist. It is decided that Dr. Observe Steiger. This is not the first time Marohn has put something in the tea for Nina. When Nina during an evening conversation, although she is very weak, Dr. Steiger has got so far that he wants to tell her something monstrous, Marohn appears in the door of her room and insists that Steiger come with him immediately. He can slip another card to Nina Petersen and tries to give a hidden hint. Then she hears the door being locked. When Petersen comes to after a while, Marohn tells her that he has a film documenting the abuse of Juliane Seibt. Steiger has been eating out of his hand ever since. Nina realizes that Marohn knows her true identity. With a smug smile, he lifts the blanket and shows her the dead Steiger, who "died" on his own tablets. At the last moment, Nina can be freed from Marohn's clutches by Meyer and some officers.

It is not the first time that disputes arise between Marohn's accomplices Bosco Weber, Torsten Jeschke and Lothar von Stendhal regarding the execution of the planned attack. Morolf finds half-burned sketches that show where the attack is to take place - on the Rügen Bridge. Nina Petersen believes, however, that there must be another place where an attack is planned. Through the hint given by Steiger, the commissioner finds out that this is to be carried out at the same time in the city center near the town hall. She passes on what she has found to Meyer, who is driving in the car in which Marohn is also located. Morolf, who overhears, announces that there is probably a medium-sized vehicle with explosives on the loading area in the city center, but that he could not correctly assign such a vehicle on the sketch. Shortly afterwards, Hidde collapses on the steps of the bridge with a bleeding leg. Morolf ensures that his colleagues rescue him and take him away. Meyer turns the vehicle so that Weber and Jeschke can see Marohn. Jeschke wants to give up, but Weber insists on going through with it. Jeschke grabs the cell phone and leaves the car. On the Rügen Bridge, Morolf is now busy preventing Stendhal from detonating the explosives, which he succeeds in doing.

Only a little later, Michael Plath from the LKA announced that the Stralsund police force had managed to avert serious damage to the city. The three surviving members of the group would now be interviewed. According to current knowledge, it can be assumed that it was an isolated, sect-like cell that no longer poses any danger.

production

Production notes

The film was produced by Network Movie , Film- und Fernsehproduktion Wolfgang Cimera GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne, production management: Andreas Breyer, production management: Ralph Retzlaff, responsible ZDF editor Martin R. Neumann .

The attack was filmed between April 9 and May 12, 2015 in Stralsund and the surrounding area as well as on Rügen and Hamburg .

Private matters of the commissioners

Nina Petersen tells Dr. Steiger that Ben, her boyfriend, got lost, professionally but also personally. He probably thought that she could never forgive him for not having any more children. You had no chance to find out whether that was the case. If she had known what he was up to ... Dr. Steiger adds: "Your partner killed himself without notice." He thinks that Nina's weaknesses are a symptom of her being overwhelmed. She tries to compensate for her fear of loss through iron control, but she cannot drive death and misfortune out of her life, something like that will always be there. However, it later turns out that Lietz did not commit suicide.

publication

The film premiered on December 28, 2015 in prime time on ZDF .

The film was released on DVD by Studio Hamburg Enterprises on April 22nd, 2016 together with episodes 5, 6 and 7.

reception

Audience rating

Stralsund: The attack was turned on by 3.83 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 11.6%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed its thumb to the side, gave one out of three possible points for action and two out of three for suspense, and criticized the fact that “those who are not familiar with” the series “can hardly understand the moods of the three inspectors”. It is true that case no. 8 of Stralsund captivates, but it is not very "original" "that the 'public enemy' is once again a pathological case and his henchmen are just stupid followers". Conclusion: "Instead of explosive only routine and too striking."

Julian Miller of Quotenmeter.de headlined: "As a thriller, a gentle breeze, as psychodrama far too superficial. The new episode in the 'Stralsund' series remains far below its potential. "This" Stralsund "episode succeeds" only a few apt (and relevant) parallels to the real conditions, "it concludes and that other approaches should have been pursued, instead of relying on "rather silly kitchen psychology". Because then the film would have "also become a relevant film with its absolutely relevant topic".

The film service, on the other hand, was of the opinion: "A (television) crime thriller with a good sense for clever suspense dramaturgy."

Judith von Sternburg dealt with the film for the Frankfurter Rundschau and said that one could “only be surprised that the team from the 'Stralsund' crime thriller 'The attack' survived the episode”. It seems as if the story of Martin Eigler and Sven Poser was "written with affection for the staff, but not in a halfway plausible story". The journalist went on to say that Lars Gunnar Lotz's staging is “routinely dramatic” - and all of this with a “highly explosive topic”, because it is “sectarian right-wing extremists who - led by Peter Lohmeyer as an ice-cold guy - want to murder on a large scale ". “The portrayal of a deeply rooted xenophobic and generally misanthropic milieu succeeds best by far, especially in the figure of the cool young accomplice (Nadja Bobyleva)”. In conclusion, von Sternburg said: "There are no such stories, there are such people in abundance in the country."

Roger Tell wrote a review for tittelbach.tv , awarded four out of six possible stars and stated that “thematically” the eighth ZDF crime thriller was “up to date, with staging he focuses on speed and action, without the quiet To forget moments ”. Tell continued: “Peter Lohmeyer, the charismatic leader of a terrorist group, and Katharina Wackernagel, the still traumatized, seriously suffering investigator, have a little psychological duel, but the other characters in the episode remain pale and the rest of the team next to the commissioner has little room to develop . Successful, exciting crime thriller entertainment based on the classic 'the bomb is ticking' pattern = good utility television! ”The continuity in the scripts pays off, because the authors can“ update their investigator characters ”, said Tell. That has "its charm" and "continues to make you curious". Peter Lohmeyer put on his role as Marohn "pleasantly withdrawn, dosed the demonic with his nuanced play and with his sonorous voice". But his character, like other characters in the series, lacks “depth”.

Marcel Kawentel from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung awarded three out of six possible stars and was struck by the fact that “so-called horizontal storytelling”, which has now “also become fashionable in German crime formats”, in the new 'Stralsund' episode 'The attack 'sick of it. The excursion into the "heavily burdened psyche of the heroine", which is related to incidents from earlier 'Stralsund' episodes, throws "such a drag on the dramaturgy of the duel between terrorists and investigators that the story only recovers in the last third" . In this case, a more appropriate title would have been 'Die Anstalt' instead of 'The attack'; they “give away the chance to tell the explosive topic of terror from the right in an exciting way”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stralsund - The attack see page networkmovie.de
  2. ^ Stralsund: The attack at crew united
  3. ↑ Stralsund, episode 5 - 8 Fig. DVD case (in the picture: Katharina Wackernagel, Wanja Mues)
  4. ↑ Manuel Nunez Sanchez: "A murder with a prospect" beats astonishingly weak "Stralsund" without any problems. Quotemeter.de, December 29, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ Stralsund: The attack. TV thriller. Terror alert from the right in the Hanseatic city on the Baltic Sea! see page tvspielfilm.de (including 11 film images). Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ Julian Miller: "Stralsund - The attack" see page quotenmeter.de. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  7. ^ Stralsund: The attack. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Stralsund - The attack. A miracle rescue In: Frankfurter Rundschau, December 28, 2015. Accessed on July 13, 2019.
  9. ^ Series "Stralsund - The attack". Wackernagel, Held, Lohmeyer, Lotz. A horizontal track & a good dose of action see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  10. ↑ Marcel Kawentel: "Stralsund - The attack" gave away his chance. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, December 28, 2015. Retrieved on July 13, 2019.